1. I'l be willing to plead our case w/IBM, any shortcut names/emails? 2. What is the desired configuration (hw & sw)? 3. N.b I'm on a comcast dhcp line, fast & stable as long as there are no 24 hr shutdowns, I use dyndns to host my domain creedon.biz. 4. I have several boxen on an 3KVA UPS - works fine, lots of power avail. 5. My shop has A/C so servers run continuously 24/7 year 'round. 6. After Russ's comments is it all going to be worthwhile? 7. I have 3 afs servers on line (well as soon as I can get afs re-installed) 8. I have geronimo.creedon.biz as a spare build machine. time nice make -j500 takes 30 sec. Its a duplicate of ookpik.creedon.biz dual xeon 64Gig, etc). (ookpik has a xeon phi board installed if anyone wants to play). 9. I built/maintain all my own servers (since 1967). 10. Backups are the user's resp. although my servers could easily host another afs domain.
________________________________________ From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org <openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org> on behalf of Dave Botsch <bot...@cnf.cornell.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 10:22:54 AM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 Hi, Ted et al. Please see below... On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 09:25:35PM +0000, Ted Creedon wrote: > I just happen to have a spare dual xeon 64gb linux box that could be made > available. > and smaller MAC w/ parallels on it. > > I also have a dual 64gb xeon w/ a xeon phi card in it too. cost ~$3K > > with a little effort... > > IBM generally waives license fees for non profits. > tedc > If you are willing to host on the HW mentioned above, as a non-profit, the Foundation can certainly make the ask of IBM. We would just need a bit more detail on the exact ask. > If what you meant was for the foundation > itself to pay for virtual build servers, > all that takes if for the foundation to > decide to spend real money. I presume > they have considered that, but it might > be worth asking the question explicitly > if it has not been explicitly answered > (I really have not been following the > foundations activities). > W.r.t. build hosts, we've been working with folk on attempting to get a Windows build host or two up. Now that we are into Feb 2017, I need to follow up on those efforts. If there's an ask for the Foundation to spend $$ on something particular, be it build hosts, or even hiring someone to work on, say, the AIX port, please submit a formal ask to foundat...@openafs.org . Contigent on funds, we will really consider it. And, donating any type of funding towards this (for example, your org donates a $10K stipend towards us hiring an independant contractor to work on AIX would go a long way). Thanks. > It might not even cost a lot (as I recall, > there are various on-demand builder > spin-up capabilities in at least some > SCMs so it is free until the commit), > but it is all work someone would have > to research. -- ******************************** David William Botsch OpenAFS Foundation Board bot...@cnf.cornell.edu ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
